You are both correct. k3b is installed by default in SOHO, BTW, and works fine. What I was suggesting was rebuilding the package so that it would work under Standard.by adding a .desktop file and by altering the default path to include /opt/kde/bin in the install script. That's my suggestion, anyway.

I once mentioned I would try to fix the k3b package, but then run out of available free time for the task... . Still, I believe there have been updated versions packaged since then. Maybe the packaging script for k3b needs retouching?

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You are both correct. k3b is installed by default in SOHO, BTW, and works fine. What I was suggesting was rebuilding the package so that it would work under Standard.by adding a .desktop file and by altering the default path to include /opt/kde/bin in the install script. That's my suggestion, anyway.

If you added the .desktop file to /usr/share/applications it would cause problems for the folks that have the entire KDE install. The default .desktop location for KDE is /opt/kde/share/applications/kde. The k3b .desktop file is there as expected so KDE users would see two icons in their menus. It would be fine for other desktop users like Xfce.

If the /opt/kde/share/applications/kde .desktop file was moved to /usr/share/applications it would work correctly for everyone, but maybe not acceptable (to Vector developers) since it belongs with KDE stuff. Maybe the doit.sh script could grep /etc/vector-vesion and move the .desktop and icon over to usr/share/applications if it is anything other than SOHO? And edit the $PATH as well?

I have no problems with k3b 1.0.1 (the package in Testing) in 5.8 Standard.So far as I remember, no problems with 1.0 either.

Strangely enough, there is no .desktop file in /usr/share/apllications, but the icon still shows up in the menu.It didn't show up right away after installation, it took a while, but it's there now. So I guess xfce is getting the .dekstop file and the icon from somewhere else.

Also, I'm able to launch both k3b and amarok from the command line. /opt/kde/bin is in my PATH in .bashrc, though I didn't put it there. It just showed up. (the kdelibs package I installed was also the one in testing)

I installed k3b in 5.8 Standard (with just kdelibs) and it shows up in the XFce desktop menu. I'm sure I didn't put it there, so something must have done it automatically.

I really don't care whether there's a proper .desktop file because I don't use the desktop menu much. I prefer to use groups on my Xfce panel and it doesn't even matter whether the executable is in my path because I can direct the launcher to wherever the executable lives.

But I suppose things should be done in the proper way.

I don't remember what happened with k3bsetup. If it wasn't found automatically, I'd just find it myself and run it. It runs just once, right?--GrannyGeek